The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

The use of coal grows\ more and
more common "down East, even
among farmers who have ample sup
plies of wood.
During the years 1888, 1891, 1885
and 1886 the government of New South
Wales paid out 81 ,s07,460 in bOuuties
for the heads Of 7,s53,7S7 rabbits.
-Austere pedagoguo Ito small boy)
boy, you speak very indistinctly.
Don't your friends tell You sop Boy
mo, sir; they are not so rude. y
The Australian bug, an insect
which has found its way from Australia
to the Pacific seaboard of this country,
has become very destructive to tree and
shrub vegetation in California. N T.
Ledger.
The West Indian birch is said to
be the weakest, and the nutmeg hickory
Of Arkansas the strongest wood. The
lightest and most brittle Is the blue
wood of Texas, and the tamarack the
most elastic. - Golden Rue. X
The body Of the Emperor Of Japan"
is blue longitudially traversed by about
thirty yellow bands; it attains length
Of fifteen inches, and is most esteemed
of all the Indian species of food. The
emperor, by-the-byc, is fish, Boston
Budget.
Florida landlord { to chiefly" Has
that hind quarter of alligator come yet9'
Chef-"No." Landlord-"Well, blank
that butcher, he was TO have it here
sure. You will have to scratch stewed
terrapin OFF the bill of fare"
"A crednlous merehantin Melbourne,
Australia, recently allowed himself 10
be swindled out of large sum Of
money by pious fraud who called him
self a prophet. The merchant entered
the transaction in his books rs Prophet
and Loss
A woman in Rochester sends word
to the postmaster at Chicago that she
has never vet seen n man whom she
liked well enough to marry, and asks
the postmaster to look around for her
and send her address to a suitable
person.
The large packing establishments
obtain as high as seventy-two per cent
Of product from the gross weight Of
hogs, from good conditioned animals
occasionally more, and the yield runs
down to sixty-eight per cent for poor
stock. Farm, Field and Stockmdn
-Vitrified stove-piping is now uni
versally used for drainage purposes
both north and south. In the South in
small villages and towns they take
the place of the pump-log, whose rc-
mains are yet exhumed occasionally
from the debris Of the underground past
In tho city Of Richmond. - Chicago
Times
"A citizen Of Beaver Falls has a dog
that used to answer to the name OF
"Snipe." Once the family went visit
ing and left snipc locked up in the
house. 1t was forty-three days before
they returned. but they found the dog
alive. He recovered from his long fast,
and since then has been called Tan
ner N y SIN.
A druggist in Athens, Ga. who did
n tremendous business, particularly in
soda water, with the students Of the
university there, has been boyeottcd by
the boys. The boycott was ordered be-
cause the druggist assisted the bailiif OF
Clarke Superior Court to serve n sub
pena on certain student toattend court
and answer TO charge of poker-play-
ing.
I'm Bavaria the Mayor Of little
village was ordered by the higher
authorities to make out a list of the
dogs kept by the inhabitants. He did
so, and the list read as follows:
The school-teacher-a dog.
The pastor-a dog.
The doctor-a dog.
Myself--a dog.
All Of us together-for dogs.
The appetite of cod is apparently
about as voracious as that Of an os-
trich. A collection OF articles which
had been taken from the stomachs OF
goldfish by the bank fishermen off New
foundland contained splitting knife, a
small brass-handlcd knife. piece Of
granite weighing three or four pounds,
an old felt hat, two counters and five
playing cards and brass lamp. Fishy,
"A curious community is established
on an island in the South Atlantic. A
man who was shipwrecked on the island
about fifty years ago is the head of the
government. which is republican in
form, though the island belongs to the
British Crown. There are nineteen
families in the State, consisting of
forty-four women and girls, twenty
three men and boys, and children under
fourteen years of age. thirty of both
sexes. Chicago Adra'lce.
~ often tell my husband" smiled
Mrs. Jones to Dumlcy, whom Jones
brought home unexpectedly to dinner,
"that if he will bring gentlemen to
dinner without letting me know little
beforehand, he must not be disap-
pointed if every thing isn't just as it
should be" .Oh, beg of you, my
dear madam. not to think of apologize
ing, !" responded Dumley with profuse
politeness; ~ have eaten worse dinners
than this, assure you, and, " he added,
1--WE eaten some pretty poor dinners,
too. Hqrper's Bazaar.
A native Persian lectured before a
Sunday school in New York lately, and
published report states that the young
ladic. Of the audience laughed when Mr..
Nccsan told how tho plrsian youth was
allowed to take on kiss from his future
wife on the eve before their marriage,
provided he could find her in a dark
room full of other ladies. They were
silent and sympathetic when he told
how, although he was engaged three
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